Rsell T Davi ss down wh Nick Leve to discs his new seri rooted the 80s Aids crisis, LGBTQ reprentatn on screen and straight actors playg gay characters
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- RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S
- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI ON QUEER ACTORS PLAYG STRAIGHT, GAY TORI, TV ERECTNS AND SPUNK
RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S
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It's A S creator Rsell T Davi has strsed the importance of stg gay actors the rol of the gay male Channel 4 seri, starrg the lik of Olly Alexanr, Neil Patrick Harris, and Stephen Fry, is set durg the 1980s AIDS epimic and follows a group of young gay men who move to London. “I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance.
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
Authenticy is leadg to joyo plac, " he seri is loosely spired by Davi' own real-life experienc – jt like the three central characters It's A S, Davi was an 18-year-old gay man 1981, at the start of the AIDS crisis.
But the 1980s I kept my head down and worked a lot, I didn’t start gog out properly on the gay scene until I was my 30s, the 90s. What, a le up of gay characters played by a st of actual gay people?
He plays Rchie, a young gay man om the Isle of Wight who’s not out to his parents.
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI ON QUEER ACTORS PLAYG STRAIGHT, GAY TORI, TV ERECTNS AND SPUNK
He also prented BBC Three documentary Growg Up Gay, which is available on BBC iPlayer and well worth a watch. He is a young gay man, who’s fay effectively disown him after he out to them.
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